Oh my God! Look, if you wear these special glasses, the Sun looks a little bit more like the Moon! (Gasp) It’s getting almost imperceptibly darker outside? Holy smokes! It’s 7-9 degrees colder right now than it was a half hour ago! Look, I don’t mean to be such a curmudgeon, but it’s who I […]
Read MoreShe’s sea-worthy! Probably not actually sea-worthy, but it’s a figure of speech. I’ve just made my inaugural trip and I’m happy to report that I am not dead. . . so that’s nice. It’s a weird feeling driving a vehicle that you’ve personally wrenched on. I usually trust myself implicitly, but this is different. I […]
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Since Seattle has just emerged from the clutches of a vicious heat wave, this seems like a good opportunity to have a casual conversation about climate change. Let’s start with an important point: “Climate change” is a stupid name and an inaccurate description of the problem at hand. We are not really concerned about the […]
Read MoreAlright, I think I’ve got a handle on what the (immediate) problem is here. I’ve spent most of the past few days covered in stinky old differential fluid, doing research and watching “how-to” videos, and the diagnosis, while a bit technical, I think is pretty accurate: my rear differential is fucked. Allow me to explain. […]
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Free beer! Well, the beer is free in the same way that Bernie Sanders vision of college is free—that is to say that someone is paying for it, and that someone is me. Seeing as though it is 11am, I will be foregoing the free (not free) beer in favor of free (again, not free) […]
Read More“BOOM!” Dagny and Atlas scampered off in fear, and John and I staggered around for a brief moment with ringing ears and wide eyes. “Well. It started,” John said in his gruffly understated fashion with a lit cigarillo dangling from his lips. I’d never had a car backfire. It was positively concussive. After a few […]
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